Scary Stories - Cursed

A 30-year-old registered nurse recounts the night an elderly man died in his ER in New Orleans. The man’s wife, a Voodoo practitioner, cursed the medical team for failing to save her husband. The nurse laughed it off. Within weeks, the young, healthy doctor died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage in his sleep. The nurse who took the curse seriously, Andre, died later that week after falling asleep at the wheel. The nurse quit his job and moved back to the Midwest. Nine years later, he still doesn’t know if the deaths were coincidences, but he never went near Voodoo again.

The Emergency Room Curse

The first story establishes the episode’s central mechanism: a spoken curse delivered by a grieving Voodoo practitioner. The nurse describes the scene in clinical detail — the rotting wound, the fluid on the lungs, the two women wailing in French Creole. Andre, the only one who understood the language, translated the threat: the wife blamed them for her husband’s death and cursed them all. The doctor and the narrator laughed it off, but Andre took it seriously. When the doctor died weeks later, Andre told the narrator that one of them was next. That day in the cafeteria was the last time the narrator saw Andre alive. The story works because it refuses to resolve the ambiguity. The narrator never claims supernatural certainty. He simply presents the sequence of events and lets the r